Rolling Stone's Top 20 Metal Albums Of 2024 Is Pretty Good

Rolling Stone recently published their The 100 Best Albums Of 2024 and it had one metal album – Kerry King's debut solo album From Hell I Rise. Rolling Stone has now issued their Top 20 Metal Albums Of 2020 and it takes a much deeper dive into the genre. The list features King as No. 1 alongside picks from bands like Blood Incantation, Judas Priest, Knocked Loose, and more!

Check out the full list here, as well as a truncated version below.

20. Body Count – Merciless
21. Tzompantli – Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force
22. Battlesnake – The Rise And Demise Of Motorsteeple
23. Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All…
24. Gouge Away – Deep Sage
25. WHORES. – WAR.
26. Unholy Altar – Veil Of Death! Shroud Of Nite
27. Knocked Loose – You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
28. SUMAC – The Healer
29. Paysage d'Hiver – Die Berge
30. Thou – Umbilical
31. Chat Pile – Cool World
32. Huntsmen – The Dry Land
33. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
34. Blood Incantation – Absolute Everywhere
35. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project
36. High On Fire – Cometh The Storm
37. Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
38. Opeth – The Last Will And Testament
39. Kerry King – From Hell I Rise